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Apply familiar SRE thinking to AI dependencies and workflows.
Error Budget
An error budget is the amount of unreliability allowed by an SLO before reliability work should take priority.
Think of it like
Think of Error Budget exactly as you would in production infrastructure: assume components fail and design the user experience around controlled failure.
Real life
Banks, airlines and large online services use Error Budget to keep critical systems dependable.
SRE lens
Use it to balance AI feature velocity against production stability.
Remember thisAn error budget is the amount of unreliability allowed by an SLO before reliability work should take priority.